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Laura Sharp Wilson — Biography



1987 B.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1993 Apprentice, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1996 M.F.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

 

 EDUCATION:

1996                 MFA     University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

1993                 Apprentice, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

1992-1991         North Carolina State School of Design, Raleigh, NC

1987                 BFA      Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA


SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2005     Sculpture, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2003     New Work, Kimberly Venardos & Company, New York, NY

           Rio Vista is Home, LUMP Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

2000     A Year in Cumberland, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD

1996     Knot, LUMP Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

           Wasted Time, Duke Institute for the Arts, Durham, NC

           What Price Comfort, Modern Museum of Art, Durham, NC

1995     New Work, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC


SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2006     Angie Drakopoulos, Ruth Waldman, Laura Sharp Wilson, McKenzie Fine Art, New York

2005     Surfaced, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, KS
           Goodbye Says It All, The Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2004     I Want to Take You Higher, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

           Mindscape, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

           Loom3, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC

           Drawings from Women, School of the Arts Gallery, Doha, Qatar

           SuperSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

           The Building Alteration Project, Mildred Monroe Elementary School #32, Baltimore, MD

           Selections, KIMBERLY VENARDOS & COMPANY, New York, NY

2003     Beggars and Thieves, Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

           Fables of La Fontaine, The Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

           Exhibition 280/PARAMETERS, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, Juror: Peter Plagens

           Bad Touch, Traveling internationally through 2004: Rose Museum, Brandies University,

           Waltham, MA; Keith Talent Gallery, London, England; Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art,

           Chicago, IL; Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

           Notebook/Artscape, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

           Violent Violence, Gallery Art et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland

           New American Talent, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX

           Juror: Dominic Molon, catalogue. Traveling statewide through 2005

           Dark Spring, Drive Through Studios, Chicago, IL. Curator: Lys Beckman

           Fables of La Fontaine, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

           Slop Art Supermarket circular and Showroom Tour, Traveling nationally through 2004:

           Center for Contemporary Arts, St. Louis, MO; Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH;

           St. Mary’s College, South Ben, IN; University of Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

2002     The Stray Show, Kingsbury Place, Chicago, IL

           12 and Under, OHT Gallery, Boston, MA.

           Art Point; during Art Basel/Miami Beach, Miami, FL. Curator: Janet Phelps

           Secret Garden, River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN

           All Media Juried Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. Juror: Claudia Gould, Curator,

           Institute of Contemporary Art

           The Will’s Creek Survey, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD.  Juror: Amy Ingrid Schlagel,

           Philadelphia Art Alliance

           19th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX. Juror: Marisol Nieves,

           Curator, Bronx Museum of the Arts

           Fables of La Fontaine, Centre pour l'Art et la Culture, Aix-en-Provence, France

           17th International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX

           Juror: Juergen Strunk

           Illuminance 2002, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, Texas. catalogue

           Pink Onions, Willard Wankelman Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

           Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY

2001     Musings: Contemporizing Tradition, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL.

           Postcards to New York, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

            The 37th Juried Exhibition, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY

           Jurors: Tom Eccles, Public Art Fund, Nicole Klagsbrun and Shamim Momin, Curator, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris

           Laura Sharp Wilson Alumni Exhibition, John and June Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

           You & Eye: Artist’s Respond to Prejudice, Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

           The Will’s Creek Survey, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD. Curator: Jonathan Binstock, Corcoran Gallery of Art

            Reflections of the New Aeon, Gallery Eleven-Seven, Long Beach, CA

            A Multi Media Miniature Exhibition, Paper Rock Scissors, Baltimore, MD

            Speak Clearly, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

            Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

2000      Maryland 2000, Howard County Art Centre, Curator: Susan Rosenberg, Philadelphia Museum of Art

            Our Planet, Ourselves, St Louis Artist’s Guild, St. Louis, MO

1999     War, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

           The Dainty Show, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

1998     When Toys Bite Back, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

1997     Extrasensitivity, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

          The Yellow Show, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

1996     Pleasure is Chaos, Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

1995     New Art in the Triangle, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC. Curator: Carrie

           Przybilla, High Museum of Art

           National Small Works Exhibition, Scholarie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY.

           Curator: Jon Ippolito, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1994     New Art, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC. Curator: Katy Kline, M.I.T University


SELECTED ARTICLES and CATALOGUES:

Gomez, Edward. Art & Antiques Magazine, September 2004

Drawings from Women, exhibition catalogue, School of the Arts Gallery, Doha Qatar, 2004

Cotter, Holland. THE NEW YORK TIMES. December 19, 2003

The Fables of Jean la Fontaine, exhibition brochure, Maryland College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Exhibition 280/Parameters, exhibition catalogue, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV

ArtPoint - ArtBasel Miami Beach, exhibition catalogue, December 2002

Street Magazine, December 6-12, 2002

New American Painting, Vol. 39. (Juror: Susan Rosenberg, Philadelphia Museum of Art), May 2002

Aix en Dialogue, “Les Fables de La Fontaine”, March 2002

Illuminance, exhibition catalogue, Spring 2002  

Adbusters Magazine, “So Tired”, May/June 2001

Natale, Michelle, The Spectator, “Frills & Chills”, February 1999


GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES:

2002     Wills Creek Survey, Anonymous Award, Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD
           Illuminance, Buddy Holly Center, Juror’s Award: Judy Dater, Lubbock, TX

           Fellowship Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA

2001     Will’s Creek Survey, First Place Award. AAC Gallery, Cumberland, MD

           Allegany Arts Council, Special Project Grant     

           Maryland State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Award